Teaching Interests:
History of Christianity
Augustine and the History and Religions of Late Antiquity
Medieval European History and Religion
African American History and Religion
American History and Religion
History of Christianity, Film, and Popular Culture

Publications and Presentations:
Paper titled "Augustine, Afrocentricity, and the Catholicization of Roman Africa: Recovering the significance of Augustine's Hybrid Identity in the making of Catholic Orthodoxy" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Philadelphia, PA (1/2006)

"Bishops, Early and Mediaeval" New Westminster Dictionary of Church History. eds. James O. Duke, Carter Lindberg, Christopher Ocker, Rebecca Harden Weaver, Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming.

Comment given on papers in session on "Heresy, Authority, and Interpretations in Early Christianity" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Washington DC (1/2004)

Paper titled "Preserve Your Chastity": the Rhetorical Formulation of Internal and External Idol Smashing in the Preaching of Augustine." Presented in the Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Section at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO (11/2001).

Paper titled "The Leader of the Pack: A Glimpse of Augustine and the Campaign for Catholic Preeminence in Roman Africa in Relationship to Imperial Legislation." Presented at the Annual Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova University, Villanova, PA (9/2000).

Paper titled "Augustine: Spin-Doctor of the Catholic Church." Presented at the Princeton University Graduate Student Conference in Medieval Studies on Encounters Between Elites And Non-Elites In The Middle Ages: The Challenge Of New Methodologies 400 â€“ 1400. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (4/2000).

Current Areas of Research:
Augustine and the Catholicization of Roman Africa
Christianity, Culture, and the Constitution in United States History
Depictions of Person, Period and Place relevant to the study of the History of Christianity
Father, Son, and Slave: A Controversial Social Metaphor for the Holy Spirit in Early Christianity
Political Conceptions of God in the History of Christianity
Postmodernism and Christianity